Lester Wilson was the youngest child of Clinton Miller Wilson and Amy (Westlake) Wilson of Winthrop, Iowa. As a teenager he moved to St. Charles, IL, to live with his oldest brother. He attended high school there and was a member of the varsity football team before he graduated. He married Helen Sabo of Aurora, IL, in November 1937. They had 10 children who lived to adulthood. Lester was employed as a switchman for the Burlington Railroad. He suffered a heart attack while waiting for a work assignment at the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad yards at Eola, Kane County, IL, and was pronounced dead at 9:20 a.m. in St. Charles Hospital, Aurora, Kane County, IL. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen, Moose Lodge 400 of Aurora, the Lucky Fifty Club, and the Fox Valley Rock and Mineral Society. In addition to his passion for finding and polishing semi-precious stones that he fashioned into beautiful jewelry, he also loved to go camping, fishing, and hunting. He is remembered by his survivors as being a strong, kind man who always placed his family before himself.
Lester Wilson was the youngest child of Clinton Miller Wilson and Amy (Westlake) Wilson of Winthrop, Iowa. As a teenager he moved to St. Charles, IL, to live with his oldest brother. He attended high school there and was a member of the varsity football team before he graduated. He married Helen Sabo of Aurora, IL, in November 1937. They had 10 children who lived to adulthood. Lester was employed as a switchman for the Burlington Railroad. He suffered a heart attack while waiting for a work assignment at the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad yards at Eola, Kane County, IL, and was pronounced dead at 9:20 a.m. in St. Charles Hospital, Aurora, Kane County, IL. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen, Moose Lodge 400 of Aurora, the Lucky Fifty Club, and the Fox Valley Rock and Mineral Society. In addition to his passion for finding and polishing semi-precious stones that he fashioned into beautiful jewelry, he also loved to go camping, fishing, and hunting. He is remembered by his survivors as being a strong, kind man who always placed his family before himself.
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Lester and Helen share a cemetery plot with their son Alan.
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